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The book has been seen as widely influential within the genre of fantasy. Margaret Atwood has called A Wizard of Earthsea one of the "wellsprings" of fantasy literature. [3] The book has been compared to major works of high fantasy such as J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings [5] [50] and L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
Julián Is a Mermaid is an American children's picture book by Jessica Love. It tells the story of a boy who wants to become a mermaid and participate in the Coney Island Mermaid Parade . Love first began writing the book in 2014 while she worked as an actress, and it was published in 2018 by Candlewick Press .
High fantasy novels, a subgenre of fantasy defined by the epic nature of its setting or by the epic stature of its characters, themes, or plot. High fantasy is set in an alternative, fictional ("secondary") world, rather than the "real" or "primary" world. This secondary world is usually internally consistent, but its rules differ from those of ...
High fantasy, or epic fantasy, is a subgenre of fantasy [1] defined by the epic nature of its setting or by the epic stature of its characters, themes, or plot. [2] High fantasy is usually set in an alternative, fictional ("secondary") world , rather than the "real" or "primary" world. [ 2 ]
Earthsea is a fictional world created by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin.Introduced in her short story "The Word of Unbinding", published in 1964, Earthsea became the setting for a further six books, beginning with A Wizard of Earthsea, first published in 1968, and continuing with The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore, Tehanu, Tales from Earthsea and The Other Wind.
Fantasy realm consisting of an archipelago of islands in a vast ocean that forms the setting for six books and seven short stories. Earwa: The Darkness That Comes Before: 2004 R. Scott Bakker: Fantasy realm that combines alien technology with magic Eight Worlds "Bagatelle" 1974 John Varley: The Emberverse/Nantucket: Island in the Sea of Time ...
The Merman's Children is a 1979 fantasy novel by American writer Poul Anderson, inspired by legends of Mermen and Mermaids from Danish folklore, in particular the ballad Agnete og Havmanden. Set at the end of the medieval era, The Merman's Children details the Faery peoples being displaced by the advancing tide of Christianity.